Finding seal marks ostensibly from Isaiah the Prophet and Hezekiah within mere feet of each other in Jerusalem is intriguing; so are other seals of other non-visionary Isaiahs found in Israel from that time

I guess I should add innocent civilians dying as well. The truth is that war is in itself pointless and doesn’t bring anyone any good, but once started it creates its own logic.
I’m watching the pictures from Gaza and I heard about the soldiers who have died. Almost all from friendly fire, which is the most lethal kind.
Especially hard was to learn that Captain Yoni Netanel (יהי זכרו ברוך) fell in Gaza last night, an officer in my battalion. I wonder how the rest of the kids are doing and I worry about them a lot. For the truth is, they’re just kids. Kids who have yet to see the world, dream their dreams and live their lives.

And what about the Palestinians? They suffer tremendously, no doubt. The “government”, they elected that promised the destruction of Israel, brought this upon them. The very same “government” is now asking for others to step in and save it from the consequences of its actions. Just like Hassan Nasrallah confessed to have underestimated Israel’s reaction to the kidnapping of its soldiers (which triggered the Second Lebanon War), so does the Hamas leadership show all the signs of having underestimated the response to thousands of rockets over southern Israel.
I am at loss to grasp this. What reaction did they expect? After 10,000 rockets during the last 8 years and 3,000 rockets only last year they must have expected something.. I mean, there must be some logic behind their actions. Even if death is something they wish for they can’t possibly win only by dying and having everything they built up destroyed.

At second thought, they do seem to want to destroy everything. To destroy Israel, to destroy the United States and the entire Western world. Destruction has become an end to itself.
Destroying is their sense of power. When you can’t build, can’t produce, can’t accomplish anything of significance and when you’re incapable of taking responsibility – then blaming others and ultimately destroying what they have, becomes your goal.
The truth is that you never hear them talk about building or achieving. As sons of the desert they want to turn everything to a barren land where nothing can live.

This conflict will continue until the Palestinians have made up their minds what kind of society they want to build for themselves. Will it be a society based on liberty or will it be based on religion. Will it be a society that aims to build or one that aims to destroy. Until they figure that out we have no choice but to continue to fight them.

And kids just out of high school, who shoulder the enormous responsibility of safeguarding the existence of a nation, will continue to fall in battle..